1. Being my friend doesn't necessarily mean you always have to agree with me or be supportive of everything I do.
♥ sometimes you just have to be honest and tell me if I'm doing it wrong
♥ sometimes you just have to be an antagonist in my life if you think I'm starting to be stupid
♥ sometimes, being blunt is better than back-biting me.
Because you know,
♥ I don't need friends who will always agree with me,
I prefer to have friends who would help me become a better person
♥ sometimes, we need to argue to enliven our lives
{admit it! its more exciting when we argue with each other!}
♥ I'm human and I make mistakes, and sometimes,
I commit them without realizing I already did
and how would I know that I did if you won't tell me?
♥ sometimes, people needs a little slap to wake their senses...
2.We are always fast to protest when others wronged US but we seldom mind it when it is us who have wronged others.
♥ it is easy to demand respect but its quite difficult to give respect
♥ it is easy to demand understanding from others
but we almost never try to understand others
♥ laughing at the expense of others feelings is alright
but laughing at our expense is inexcusable. Right?
3. Using LOVE as an excuse is just plain LAME.
♥ you know what they say about true love being unselfish?
because it is.
♥ TAKEN also means BACK-OFF!
♥ "My only fault is that, I loved" is the lamest of all love excuses.
You can't just blame your stupidity on love. Show it respect you know.
4. Everyone is different.
♥ so, respect.
♥ it's actually a very basic concept that we just refuse to grasp.
We are not the same and never will be. Its our differences that
makes the world an exciting place to live in.
♥ I don't want to look like you or be like you, so please, allow me to be me.
♥ If you promise to stop insisting that I be like you,
I promise to stop running away from you.
~tomo ΓΌ
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
me? yes ME!
I often think that a person's perception of himself is not who he really is. That nobody really knew himself, that the people around you are the ones who could actually give you an honest and unbiased assessment of who you are.
If that is so, then who am I? If who I perceive myself to be is not who I am, then who am I? If I perceive myself as human, then does this mean I am not human at all? [Then probably my theory that I am really an angel is true...right? You think so?]
Of course, before you could give an HONEST assessment of who I am, I would like to present to you my perceptions of myself.
I see myself as a lover of secret; a lover of the dark, the creepy, the morbid. I am fascinated by death; how it feels to be dead, what's after it, everything about it. I fight for peace but I also believe in torture and assassination of anybody who violates the law.
Yes, I believe in the iron hand. An eye for an Eye and a tooth for a tooth. I believe in the value of discipline, of logic. I believe and value logic, yet I also believe that there are some things that defy logic. There are things in this world that is simply unexplainable and are better left alone.
I believe that everything happens for a reason, with a reason and that nothing in this world is ever accidental. I don't believe that there is such a thing as "NO CHOICE" because even if you don't do anything or say anything , you already made a choice.
I am skeptical about so many things. I don’t trust easily and very few people I know have gained my trust so easily. I seldom trust the people around me because when I do, I had always been betrayed. There are very few people that I trust yet even to them I cannot share the deepest secrets that I keep.
To a very few things and instances, I am impulsive. Very impulsive. But to matters of great importance to me, I am always cautious.
Like a real Snake, I am fiercely territorial, possessive. Whatever is mine is mine and you can only touch it when I told you to. Like a Dragon, I am bossy and demanding. A real Capricorn, I set goals for myself and work hard to reach it. Sometimes, I build goals that are too high for me to reach and I end up disappointed and hurt. But always, as what Capricorns always do, I stand up and fight tooth and nail to reach my goals.
I also happen to believe in the value of the three Ps: Patience, Persistence and Perseverance in achieving my goals. Simply put, I hardly ever give up.
I always think that if I give my 100% then others must either equal it or surpass it. Nobody has the right to give less when I am giving my all to it. I believe in the idea of team work and cooperation yet I also know that I am more productive when I am working alone. I just can’t stand so many people bickering and arguing over matters that are too shallow or too mundane.
I am ambitious and I believe that being ambitious is better than having no ambitions at all.
Among other things, I pride myself for being born between the Dragon and the Snake—the two strongest characters in the Chinese Zodiac. Like the dragon, I am a free spirit who craves for adventure, for thrill, for life. I detest restrictions yet, as a Snake who is always deem sensible and stable, I placed limitations on myself. And as a free spirit, I hate taking orders especially from people who doesn’t even know what they are talking about. I only follow the rules I set for myself and those I want to follow. I don’t like people telling me what to do with my life because I always believe that only I can decide what I wanted to do with it.
An existentialist, I believe that I am free and responsible to do what I want with my life.
I love solitude and I love being alone. My greatest and worst ideas are products of my solitude. I love silence yet I can be very talkative when I feel like it. I value privacy yet I love sharing a bit of myself to anybody.
I know I am a person with contrasting personalities. Normal human beings actually are. I deem myself as absolutely normal which means I am perfectly imperfect, strives to succeed, prone to fail, seeks for happiness and contentment and basically what every other human beings are.
If my name will be included in a dictionary it will be a synonym to the words; perfectionist, dreamer, tactless, determined, idealistic, reasonable, impulsive, cautious, confident, persistent, impatient in so many things, demanding, aloof, loner and so many other words that is quite tiring to enumerate. Yes, I am all that and I agree with anybody who would define me as that because I know that it is true.
One thing though, I simply refuse to call myself weird, activist, learned and independent. As what I have already stated above, I deemed myself as NORMAL and refuse to be called otherwise. I am idealistic yet I am not an activist because I believe that activism is “all talk, no action” and I am a person who prefers things that has an end-result. I am not independent though I am free. I am not self-reliant enough to be independent. As for learned, I still lack the knowledge to change the world and still has so many important and practical things to learn.
Yes, I want to change the world though I know that I cannot do it alone. That is why, I believe in team work and cooperation.
I can be very violent when the situation calls for it yet caring if I wanted to. I am calm and turbulent, peace and chaos, sweet and bitter, a bit insane yet normal.
This is how I see myself yet your perception will actually depend on how you wanted to see me.
If you want to see me as a person who cares for the things and the people around me then you will see me as such. If you want to see me as a good and loving person then I could probably be one. But if your perception of me is of a spoiled, demanding, tactless and arrogant piece of creation then you will only see in me my flaws.
One thing though, I am never arrogant and I never intend for people to be intimidated by me or fear me. If you see me as such then so be it. I guess I cannot change the way people would want to perceive me no matter how much I try to make them see my good side.
I will not try to be somebody else; I will remain as what I perceived myself to be. Maybe someday somebody will see the good in me and maybe by then you will see it too.
A person is blinded by his ideals and will only see clearly when he realizes that though the compass will always point north, everybody still has an option to go the other way.
I, thank you.
Friday, March 26, 2010
ZIPPED
They say that when you are not sure of what you are going to say, keep silent.
When you don't have anything better to say, keep silent.
When you know that what you are going to say could hurt other people's feelings, or is not sure if it could offend or not, keep silent.
I think one of the golden rules for a peaceful life is KEEP SILENT.
Sometimes we say things that could offend others, whether we mean it or not. Sometimes we don't really mean it and therefore we could be absolved of the guilt. But there are times when we know fully well that what we are saying or is meant to say could hurt or offend others. We still do it rationalizing that we are given the 'freedom' to express ourselves in a way we want.
We defend what we do. We defend what we say. We keep on saying its somebody else fault. We keep on saying that we did not mean to offend. But it actually doesn't matter if you mean to offend or not. The fact remains that you have offended somebody.
Does saying "I didn't mean it!" change the fact that the person was hurt?
Look at it this way, if you have accidentally killed a person, say in a vehicular accident. You did not mean to kill the person but that doesn't mean that you are not guilty of the crime. You still killed the person and whether you mean it or not, the person remains dead.
I think its time that we start zipping our mouths from time to time. Before you say something, ask yourself first, "How would I feel if I am the one being called horrible names?" or "Would I want the same things spoken to me?"
There is a need for us to zip our mouths. There is a need for me to zip my mouth.
Be sensitive. You're not the only human being in this world.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
what a LEADER should be.
It is often said that there are so many ways to exercise leadership and there are so many kinds of leaders. Every leader has their own way of managing their teams. Some are strict while some are not.
The article, Characteristics of an effective team leader says that true leaders, empower their teams by their behaviors. The article enumerated that a true leader acts as an advocate with the upper management, facilitate honest and open communication, model behaviors that they want from the team, acts instead of react, facilitate decision making and discussions with teams, recognize the stregths of each member and use it for the advantage of the team, see the big picture and communicate each member’s role in the context, encouraged independent thinking and trust his members to decide for themselves, and gathers members with complementary skills and darw from the strength of each member.
Allow me to focus on some points.
Facilitate honest and open communication among members. In a group, it is important that a leader is neutral to its members. Leaders should not take sides when members are in conflict. Instead, a leader should take the initiative to reconcile members and sooth conflicts. As a leader, you may encourage members to discuss matters in a professional manner, take things easily and talk about the conflict instead of taking sides and complicating the situation.
Model behaviors that they want from the team. “Follow the leader” is a very common line and should be taken seriously. I, for one, believes that the attitude of your subordinates is a reflection of the kind of leader that you are. If you are a responsible leader, you will encourage your members to be more responsible. You cannot expect your members to be responsible if you yourself cannot do your responsibilities.
Recognize the stregths of each member and use it for the advantage of the team. I remembered a line in the book, The Little Prince where it says that, one should demand from one the duties which one can perform. It is important that each member do the things that they are capable of doing for a better result. You cannot expect one to do programming if his strength is in advertising.
Encouraged independent thinking and trust his members to decide for themselves. This will allow members to be more independent and self-confident. Someday, these members will become leaders themselves and they will be making important decisions. It is therefore the role of the present leader to train the members and prepare them for the future. You will not always be with the company or the group and someday somebody will have to take your place. The success of a company or a team is only assured if everybody is prepared to take the helm when the situation calls for it.
Leadership is a hard position. It is not just a job but a vocation. You don’t cease to be a leader during day-offs or weekends. Once a leader, always a leader. So better start acting like one.
MATUTO KA NA JUAN DELA CRUZ!
2010 is fast approaching. Election time again.
Or so most of us hope.
The outcome of the 2010 election is significant to our country. As is the outcome of every elections. For the next six years we will be lead by the people whose names we wrote in our ballots. And I hope this time, we all learn from the past.
Don't vote for the person just because he came from a political family. Just because his great-grandparents were leaders doesn't mean he knows how to lead.
Don't vote for a person just because he is popular. Governance is not all about popularity. Let the past teach us that most famous people are only as good as decorations after the elections.
Don't vote just because the person is rich enough to buy your vote. Remember that it is not only your future but the future of the Filipino nation that is at stake in every elections. A man who will pay his way to power is not suited to govern us.
Don't vote for a person just because you like the way he looks. Capability is more important.
We should learn to take elections seriously. Choosing our leader is a serious matter. Always remember, the aim of the election is to come up with a leader that will lead our country and help it progress and not to put another parasite in position.
2010 na, matuto ka na Juan de la Cruz!
there is such thing as ENOUGH...
Enough.
When things go beyond what is tolerable, it has to end.
Like everything else in this world, everything has a limit. Patience has a threshold and not as elastic as a rubber band. In fact, even the most elastic rubber band in the world can only be stretched at a limit. Stretch a rubber band too hard and it breaks, it snaps.
Enough.
Human as we are, we are not perfect. This is a fact. When we go beyond what should be, we start stepping on other people's toes, offend others, hurt their feelings and in the process, ruin our relationship with the people around us. It is normal for humans to have faults but it is not normal to constantly hurt others.
Enough is enough. We have to stop. We have to know our limits. We have to realize that we are not the only ones who are entitled to be hurt, to be understood, to be respected. The people around us deserves the respect that is due to them. They deserve to be understood and to feel because they too are human.
Without limit, there can be no discipline. Without discipline there is no real respect. Without real respect, there can be no peace.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
THE GREAT PRETENDER
I think pretending is an inherent trait of every human being.
Sometimes, pretending could also be good.
However, a lot of times, its better not to pretend at all.
I think its better if we just say things as it is than pretend that everything is fine when it is not. I think its better if we argue openly than smile at each other then back-bite each other. I think, its better to just do it than pretend that its alright.
But sometimes, we have no choice but to pretend.
Sometimes, for the sake of the people we love, we pretend that everything is fine.
Sometimes, we have to pretend to save ourselves from getting hurt and hurting others.
Sometimes, we have to pretend so everything could go on smoothly.
We pretend to smile even when our hearts our breaking.
We pretend to laugh even when the tears are about to fall.
We pretend to be fine even if our world is already crumbling.
We pretend that we have moved on even if deep inside us, we know that we still hold on.
We pretend that we have forgotten when we know that we haven't.
We pretend that its alright even if the truth is, it never really was.
We pretend. We pretend. We always pretend. We keep on pretending.
But all these we do so we don't hurt the people around us.
What is not good is when we pretend to be somebody we are not. What makes pretending bad is when we pretend to be somebody else.
Why do we need to pretend when we know that the people around us have already accepted us for who or what we are? Which is more important, the unconditional acceptance of your friends or the comments of the people who never cared to know the real you? How can you expect people to accept you when you can't even accept yourself?
I guess, there is no need to pretend to be somebody else. Let people see the real you. let the people love and accept the real you and not the facade that you prefer to project. Be thankful to those who will accept you with no "buts" or "ifs". Be thankful to those who will never leave you no matter who you are or what you are. Be thankful to those who will accept you wholeheartedly. Never mind those who can't, they won't really matter.
Pretending is an inherent characteristic. But it doesn't mean that you have to pretend all the time.
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I had long ago realized that the reason why the people we love are taken from us first so we would learn to love and care for those we never appreciated before.
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Sometimes, we need to be hurt to learn. Sometimes, we need to be scared so we would remember. Sometimes, we need to be marked so we won't forget.
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I may not be the greatest creation of God but I know that no matter what people say, I am worth something. I am not the kindest or the loveliest of people but this does not mean that I have nothing good inside of me.
Despite of my faults and everything I am not, I believe that I still deserved to be loved and cared for. I may not be the most charming, attentive, and caring person in the world but I know that I still deserved to find love, be loved and be accepted.
You can never measure my worth unless you know me. You can never truly say that I am good or I am bad unless you try to understand me.
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Please don't judge me for a single mistake. Please don't judge my person based on a single incident.
I am like a book that you need to read thoroughly to understand. My every chapter tells a different story. Every leaf shows a different facet of my personality. Please don't judge me because a single page is marred. Please don't judge me because the chapter you have opened is bad. It doesn't mean that all the pages are spotted or that all the chapters are not worth reading.
Please don't let me go just because you thought you have read everything already. Please don't throw me away because you think that my pages are not even worth your time. Try reading between the lines, sometimes the tears are just hidden inside.
Please don't let my pages fade from the tears that you don't see. Please read me till the end. Listen to my story before you tell me who I am. Read me and understand me so you will know who I really am.
But if you can't really bear to read me any longer, please put me down gently so others could read me too. Please be gentle, I can be hurt too. Remember that I am like a book; someday my pages will fade. Please be gentle when you already have to put me away.
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NOTE: Ang ka-dramahang ito ay hindi magtatagal at lilipas din.:))
Sometimes, pretending could also be good.
However, a lot of times, its better not to pretend at all.
I think its better if we just say things as it is than pretend that everything is fine when it is not. I think its better if we argue openly than smile at each other then back-bite each other. I think, its better to just do it than pretend that its alright.
But sometimes, we have no choice but to pretend.
Sometimes, for the sake of the people we love, we pretend that everything is fine.
Sometimes, we have to pretend to save ourselves from getting hurt and hurting others.
Sometimes, we have to pretend so everything could go on smoothly.
We pretend to smile even when our hearts our breaking.
We pretend to laugh even when the tears are about to fall.
We pretend to be fine even if our world is already crumbling.
We pretend that we have moved on even if deep inside us, we know that we still hold on.
We pretend that we have forgotten when we know that we haven't.
We pretend that its alright even if the truth is, it never really was.
We pretend. We pretend. We always pretend. We keep on pretending.
But all these we do so we don't hurt the people around us.
What is not good is when we pretend to be somebody we are not. What makes pretending bad is when we pretend to be somebody else.
Why do we need to pretend when we know that the people around us have already accepted us for who or what we are? Which is more important, the unconditional acceptance of your friends or the comments of the people who never cared to know the real you? How can you expect people to accept you when you can't even accept yourself?
I guess, there is no need to pretend to be somebody else. Let people see the real you. let the people love and accept the real you and not the facade that you prefer to project. Be thankful to those who will accept you with no "buts" or "ifs". Be thankful to those who will never leave you no matter who you are or what you are. Be thankful to those who will accept you wholeheartedly. Never mind those who can't, they won't really matter.
Pretending is an inherent characteristic. But it doesn't mean that you have to pretend all the time.
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I had long ago realized that the reason why the people we love are taken from us first so we would learn to love and care for those we never appreciated before.
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Sometimes, we need to be hurt to learn. Sometimes, we need to be scared so we would remember. Sometimes, we need to be marked so we won't forget.
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I may not be the greatest creation of God but I know that no matter what people say, I am worth something. I am not the kindest or the loveliest of people but this does not mean that I have nothing good inside of me.
Despite of my faults and everything I am not, I believe that I still deserved to be loved and cared for. I may not be the most charming, attentive, and caring person in the world but I know that I still deserved to find love, be loved and be accepted.
You can never measure my worth unless you know me. You can never truly say that I am good or I am bad unless you try to understand me.
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Please don't judge me for a single mistake. Please don't judge my person based on a single incident.
I am like a book that you need to read thoroughly to understand. My every chapter tells a different story. Every leaf shows a different facet of my personality. Please don't judge me because a single page is marred. Please don't judge me because the chapter you have opened is bad. It doesn't mean that all the pages are spotted or that all the chapters are not worth reading.
Please don't let me go just because you thought you have read everything already. Please don't throw me away because you think that my pages are not even worth your time. Try reading between the lines, sometimes the tears are just hidden inside.
Please don't let my pages fade from the tears that you don't see. Please read me till the end. Listen to my story before you tell me who I am. Read me and understand me so you will know who I really am.
But if you can't really bear to read me any longer, please put me down gently so others could read me too. Please be gentle, I can be hurt too. Remember that I am like a book; someday my pages will fade. Please be gentle when you already have to put me away.
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NOTE: Ang ka-dramahang ito ay hindi magtatagal at lilipas din.:))
LESSON-FREE
The previous semester is probably the worst I ever had.
I did not learn anything in most of my subjects and I spent most of my time gazing in space, wondering why in the world did I ever became so unfortunate to be under instructors who simply refuse to give justice to their titles.
To say that I am disgruntled is an understatement. I was frustrated and discouraged that I lost all inclination to go to school or study my lessons. And let me make this clear, I am not the only one. The rest of my classmates all felt the same.
Who wouldn’t? We force ourselves to wake up early in the morning to attend our classes only to wait for hours in the classroom because either our instructor forgot that we have a class or they simply would not show up without any explanation. We did not learn anything because if ever they would show-up in class, they would discuss things that are not related to our subject or give us works totally unrelated to our lessons. There are times when we are given tasks without knowing if what we are doing is related to our lessons (which we do not get anyway) or not.
Probably a lot of students would be more than happy to exchange places with us because a lot of my acquaintances from other courses find it nice that we are constantly in holiday. However, none of us in class thinks so. This, being the last year of our stay in college, is probably the most important part of our college life. A lot of us felt that we are still unprepared and we still have a lot of things to learn to prepare us to the world that awaits us after we graduate, that we felt disappointed with what happened to us.
We enrolled in these classes with high expectations and eagerly anticipating the many things we could learn from it. But after the month-long consecutive meetings with no ‘real’ classes, we lost interest in the subjects. There are times when we no longer bother going to our classroom to check if we are going to have classes or not because we know from experience that it would be a waste of time. Experience is the best teacher as they say, and we have surely learned from it.
What hurts us the most is the fact that while we are getting more and more frustrated everyday by the lack of lessons, our teachers are still enjoying their salaries for the job that they did not even fulfill.
We are here in school to learn, to be trained for the so-called real world and not to spend our time worrying if our instructors still exists or not. That is why they are called teachers, because they are being paid to teach. Of course, we still have instructors who give their best to fulfill their duties but this does not erase the fact that we could have learned more if all of our instructors are like the few who would give everything to train us.
This is a sad truth that most people refuse to acknowledge. It is not always true that when a student does not learn anything he/she is dumb or lazy. Sometimes, a student does not learn anything because some teachers prefer to have lesson-free classes and self-declared holidays.
The things we had experienced under these instructors are the kind of things that we wish we never experienced at all And if I would be given the chance to turn back the time and change something, this holiday-filled semester will be the one thing I would change first.
I did not learn anything in most of my subjects and I spent most of my time gazing in space, wondering why in the world did I ever became so unfortunate to be under instructors who simply refuse to give justice to their titles.
To say that I am disgruntled is an understatement. I was frustrated and discouraged that I lost all inclination to go to school or study my lessons. And let me make this clear, I am not the only one. The rest of my classmates all felt the same.
Who wouldn’t? We force ourselves to wake up early in the morning to attend our classes only to wait for hours in the classroom because either our instructor forgot that we have a class or they simply would not show up without any explanation. We did not learn anything because if ever they would show-up in class, they would discuss things that are not related to our subject or give us works totally unrelated to our lessons. There are times when we are given tasks without knowing if what we are doing is related to our lessons (which we do not get anyway) or not.
Probably a lot of students would be more than happy to exchange places with us because a lot of my acquaintances from other courses find it nice that we are constantly in holiday. However, none of us in class thinks so. This, being the last year of our stay in college, is probably the most important part of our college life. A lot of us felt that we are still unprepared and we still have a lot of things to learn to prepare us to the world that awaits us after we graduate, that we felt disappointed with what happened to us.
We enrolled in these classes with high expectations and eagerly anticipating the many things we could learn from it. But after the month-long consecutive meetings with no ‘real’ classes, we lost interest in the subjects. There are times when we no longer bother going to our classroom to check if we are going to have classes or not because we know from experience that it would be a waste of time. Experience is the best teacher as they say, and we have surely learned from it.
What hurts us the most is the fact that while we are getting more and more frustrated everyday by the lack of lessons, our teachers are still enjoying their salaries for the job that they did not even fulfill.
We are here in school to learn, to be trained for the so-called real world and not to spend our time worrying if our instructors still exists or not. That is why they are called teachers, because they are being paid to teach. Of course, we still have instructors who give their best to fulfill their duties but this does not erase the fact that we could have learned more if all of our instructors are like the few who would give everything to train us.
This is a sad truth that most people refuse to acknowledge. It is not always true that when a student does not learn anything he/she is dumb or lazy. Sometimes, a student does not learn anything because some teachers prefer to have lesson-free classes and self-declared holidays.
The things we had experienced under these instructors are the kind of things that we wish we never experienced at all And if I would be given the chance to turn back the time and change something, this holiday-filled semester will be the one thing I would change first.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
I BADLY MISS MY HIGHSCHOOL DAYS..
Now I know why High School Life is better... *wink*
When I was in High School, I never ran out of money. I always have a penny to buy what I need (and some of the things I want) and I never have to worry about the next day.
When I was in High School, I never went out of the house without eating anything and never really had to skip meals (either by choice or no choice...hehehe...grammar friend!). I never had to worry about what I would eat next or how to eat next.
I used to be so confident with my money that I could spend my one-week allowance in just three days. I never worried about it because I know that I will never go hungry and that, my parents will give me money if I ask for it.
High school life is so much easier. They don't really give you that much responsibility in HS. Well, HS students might argue about this but this is the truth. The pressure you get in HS is lesser compared to the kind of pressure you get in College.
In HS, you never really get a sleepless night. Oh yeah, you may miss a few winks now and then but believe me, its nothing in college. In college, you miss sleep because you don't have a choice. You miss sleep because 24 hours a day and 7 days a week is just not enough to do everything.
You can afford to make mistakes in HS, but College is a lot different. This is the make or break point of your life. In HS, when you make mistakes people understands and attributes it to your immaturity. Because, yes...in HS, you can be as immature as you want. In college, people expects you to be matured and mistakes are costly.
The bestest friends you can find are also in HS. You may hate your classmates so much now but later on you will realize that nothing could really replace them.
When I was in HS, my life revolves around School, Sleeping, Eating, and Watching animes. Now, my life revolves around School, boarding house, School, and boarding house. I sleep 8-12 hours per week and eats twice (and sometimes once) a day. And I could no longer watch anime because I don't have the time.
I miss High School. I miss it so much.
(but I wouldn't want to go back either!)
PIECES OF ME WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL
When I was in High School, I never ran out of money. I always have a penny to buy what I need (and some of the things I want) and I never have to worry about the next day.
When I was in High School, I never went out of the house without eating anything and never really had to skip meals (either by choice or no choice...hehehe...grammar friend!). I never had to worry about what I would eat next or how to eat next.
I used to be so confident with my money that I could spend my one-week allowance in just three days. I never worried about it because I know that I will never go hungry and that, my parents will give me money if I ask for it.
High school life is so much easier. They don't really give you that much responsibility in HS. Well, HS students might argue about this but this is the truth. The pressure you get in HS is lesser compared to the kind of pressure you get in College.
In HS, you never really get a sleepless night. Oh yeah, you may miss a few winks now and then but believe me, its nothing in college. In college, you miss sleep because you don't have a choice. You miss sleep because 24 hours a day and 7 days a week is just not enough to do everything.
You can afford to make mistakes in HS, but College is a lot different. This is the make or break point of your life. In HS, when you make mistakes people understands and attributes it to your immaturity. Because, yes...in HS, you can be as immature as you want. In college, people expects you to be matured and mistakes are costly.
The bestest friends you can find are also in HS. You may hate your classmates so much now but later on you will realize that nothing could really replace them.
When I was in HS, my life revolves around School, Sleeping, Eating, and Watching animes. Now, my life revolves around School, boarding house, School, and boarding house. I sleep 8-12 hours per week and eats twice (and sometimes once) a day. And I could no longer watch anime because I don't have the time.
I miss High School. I miss it so much.
(but I wouldn't want to go back either!)
PIECES OF ME WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL
Farewell party in Abucay County
SWIMMING IN ABUCAY COUNTY (muse ako dito e, haha. ako lang kasi babae! haha)
waa. Namimiss ko sumakay ng shuttle! :(
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS @ Mt. Samat
KASAGSAGAN NG MOVIE MARATHON NAMIN AFTER PERIODICAL TEST
Tama na nga ang pagrereminisce. emo na kung emo.. Namimiss ko lang talaga kayo mga kapatid ko'ng Mendel :(
I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT I'M A JOURNALISM STUDENT
They say that there is nothing constant in this world but change. I say, in my world there are only two constants: deadline and pressure.
As a Journalism student, my life is governed by deadlines. Time is economized and 24 hours is not enough to do everything. Hectic schedules, interviews, travels, sleepless nights, pictorials, tapings, shootings...we are living a life of a celebrity and none of us liked it.
A long time ago I have realized that Journalism is a course where sweat and tears are not enough to make you pass. This is a course for people who can actually take the challenge and survive. This is a course for people who are prepared to bleed and labor in order to pass.
Bleeding is good though. It prepares us to the kind of challenges that we are going to face when we graduate. If pressure creates a diamond then the kind of pressure we are facing now will make us the most beautiful diamonds the world could ever find.
I just hope so.
As a Journalism student, my life is governed by deadlines. Time is economized and 24 hours is not enough to do everything. Hectic schedules, interviews, travels, sleepless nights, pictorials, tapings, shootings...we are living a life of a celebrity and none of us liked it.
A long time ago I have realized that Journalism is a course where sweat and tears are not enough to make you pass. This is a course for people who can actually take the challenge and survive. This is a course for people who are prepared to bleed and labor in order to pass.
Bleeding is good though. It prepares us to the kind of challenges that we are going to face when we graduate. If pressure creates a diamond then the kind of pressure we are facing now will make us the most beautiful diamonds the world could ever find.
I just hope so.
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